A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Holly Hunter: O'Reilly

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• [last lines] 

  Gabriel : All clear.

  O'Reilly , Jackson : [rising and gasping for breath] 

  Gabriel : So, how was it?

  O'Reilly : Believe me Gabriel, you don't want to know.

  Gabriel : But it worked!

  O'Reilly : Love... worked.

  Gabriel : Amaratus pathum laborium!

  Jackson : Are we going home now?

  Gabriel : We're goin' home.

  Jackson : At last.

• O'Reilly : We can do this with or without violence, it's up to you. The client pays our medical bills but not yours. Well?

  Robert : Oh, without, please.

• O'Reilly : Human fucking beings. What do you have to do?

• [Knock on the hideout's door] 

  Jackson : What is that?

  O'Reilly : Answer it, Jackson.

  Jackson : I can't do that. We're playing blackjack, she might cheat while I'm out of the room.

  [Celine, who's bound and gagged, rolls her eyes] 

  O'Reilly : Fine. I'll answer the door, you play blackjack with the hostage.

• O'Reilly : Our fee for the recovery of your daughter is... one hundred thousand dollars.

  Naville : That's a lot of money.

  O'Reilly : Five thousand in advance. The rest is cash on delivery - no daughter, no dough.

  Jackson : And naturally we'd operate a sliding scale, whereby if we only bring back part of your daughter, we only get part of the money.

  O'Reilly : That's enough, Jackson.

  Jackson : No, I mean if he's cut her ears off and we can't find them, we'll knock a couple thousand off the tariff. More for a limb, obviously.

  O'Reilly : Jackson.

  Jackson : Sorry.

• Jackson : I remember the good old days. All you had to do was introduce a man and a woman, Nature did the rest. Doesn't work like that anymore. Men and women, it's all gone to shit.

  O'Reilly : Sure has.

• O'Reilly : Jeopardy, Jackson. Always works.

• [after Robert ditches O'Reilly and Jackson in a car chase, they pull up behind his car] 

  Hiker : [laughing]  No problem. Exactly as you predicted! "Quick, drive my car!"

  O'Reilly : Here's $40.

  Hiker : If you don't mind my asking, how did you know he was going to react like that?

  O'Reilly : It's our job to know things like that.

  Hiker : You mean you've done this sort of thing before?

  Jackson : [from their car]  Let's go!

  O'Reilly : [to Hiker]  You can take the car, but remember: it's stolen.

• Jackson : I hate it down here. I hate the air, I hate the food, I hate the plumbing. I ache all over. I sweat in the heat and I ache in the cold. And why can't we stay someplace decent?

  O'Reilly : Budget doesn't cover that.

  Jackson : Exactly. Why not?

  O'Reilly : You know those mysterious ways you keep hearing about, Jackson? Well, this is one of them.

• O'Reilly : Jeopardy, Jackson, always works.

• Naville : I want her back.

  O'Reilly : Don't worry, we'll get her.

  Naville : And I want him dead.

  O'Reilly : That's understood, Mr. Naville.

  Naville : Good.

  [He places the suitcase with the ransom cash on the desk. Jackson starts to take it, but Naville slaps a hand down on it] 

  Naville : And when it's over, I want *this* back.